Jobs at Oxford Quantum Circuits

Lead the architecture, design, integration, validation, and delivery of high-performance electronic systems for quantum control platforms. Responsibilities include high-density PCB design, FPGA integration, synchronization, signal and power integrity, EMI/EMC compliance, supplier coordination, debugging, technical reviews, engineering strategy, and mentoring.

Design and simulate superconducting quantum processors, optimize circuit layouts and readout, maintain QPU design toolchain, analyze experimental data, own research projects, and communicate technical recommendations.

Leads complex technical and scientific projects from definition through delivery, establishing strategies, milestones, governance, budgets, and resource plans. Manages risks, issues, dependencies, and competing priorities while influencing technical teams, senior stakeholders, and sponsors. The role requires independent decision-making, evidence-based recommendations, and strong communication across technical and business functions. It also drives continuous improvement in project management practices, tools, and governance.

Leads OQC’s Technical Project Management Office, establishing delivery standards, governance, operating models, portfolio visibility, dependency management, risk escalation, and resource allocation. Provides professional leadership, coaching, and line management for project and programme managers while partnering with senior stakeholders, Finance, Supply Chain, and functional leaders. Oversees complex, interdependent technology and delivery programmes, improving predictability, transparency, financial visibility, and decision-making across the enterprise portfolio.

Lead OQC’s global, multi-channel marketing strategy and campaigns across digital, PR, events, and account-based marketing. Manage HubSpot workflows, automation, reporting, and campaign optimization using data from HubSpot, GA4, and AgilityPR. Develop technical and scientific content, support sales enablement and revenue growth, manage agencies, suppliers, budgets, and events, and line-manage Marketing Managers while maintaining brand consistency and strategic alignment.

Develop and integrate Python software for quantum computing systems, turning technical concepts into reliable features. Build experiments, prototypes, and tooling for quantum control, collaborate with quantum engineers, test and review code, and contribute to increasingly capable processor operations.

Provides 1st and 2nd line IT support across Windows, macOS, Linux, cloud platforms, networks, applications, and hardware. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, ticket and SLA management, onboarding and offboarding, asset and license management, system monitoring, documentation, backup and recovery support, and contributions to security, compliance, automation, and IT improvement projects. The role also supports cross-functional initiatives and escalates complex issues to 3rd line specialists.

Lead the architecture and technical direction of OQC’s hybrid compute platform, connecting CPUs, GPUs, simulators, and QPUs. Design stable interfaces, orchestration, capability matching, fallback mechanisms, policy enforcement, and backend adapters. Establish standards for reliability, security, testing, observability, and extensibility while remaining hands-on with implementation. Coordinate technical contributors across product, engineering, commercial, and leadership teams, and lead integrations with infrastructure, Databricks, QPU systems, and customer environments.

Develop and maintain reliable software supporting the production and operation of quantum computers. Own projects across requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, and evaluation; troubleshoot development and production issues; design systems; maintain CI/CD pipelines; review and test code; document solutions; and mentor less-experienced engineers. The role spans greenfield and established codebases and requires collaboration with technical stakeholders across the software lifecycle.

Designs, simulates, prototypes, tests, and deploys passive RF and microwave circuitry, PCBs, packaging, and control/readout solutions for quantum computing systems. Responsibilities include optimizing signal integrity and performance, analyzing test data, managing technical validation and documentation, engaging suppliers, and collaborating with hardware, engineering, and supply chain teams on UK and international installations.

Leads OQC’s US Solutions Architecture function, guiding technical customer engagements and developing quantum computing use cases, algorithms, proofs of concept, benchmarks, and recommendations. Translates business challenges into practical quantum solutions, shapes proposals and product direction, represents OQC externally, and tracks applied quantum advances. Manages and mentors Solutions Architects while collaborating with Business Development, Account Management, Product, and technical teams.

Develop low-qubit quantum generative models for synthetic and rare-event data, including banking applications. Design, test, and benchmark QCBMs, qGANs, quantum Boltzmann methods, variational circuits, and sampling techniques against classical alternatives. Optimize implementations for current quantum hardware, validate them on simulators and QPUs, analyze experimental results, and package successful algorithms for OQC’s hybrid computing platform.

Develop and evaluate quantum algorithms for detection, prediction, and estimation workloads. Design measurement strategies, controlled experiments, and ablation studies to assess circuit costs, sample complexity, noise sensitivity, hardware portability, and quantum contribution. Benchmark theoretical expectations against real quantum hardware and help translate promising methods into repeatable capabilities for hybrid computing products. Collaborate across quantum research, software, product, and engineering teams.

Develop and test superconducting quantum computing hardware systems through experimental design, cryogenic and microwave measurements, calibration, automation, and quantitative data analysis. Build prototypes, benchmark readout and reset operations, investigate technical issues, document findings, and recommend system improvements. Collaborate with quantum control and hardware teams while contributing to technical publications, conferences, and multidisciplinary engineering projects.

Leads experimental system integration for quantum computing testbeds, combining quantum processors, cryogenics, control electronics, firmware, HPC, and real-time decoding. Owns system architecture, requirements, verification, validation, technology transfer, operational improvement, technical roadmaps, and complex research project delivery. Builds and develops a technical team, coordinates multidisciplinary programs, supports external collaborations, and translates research objectives into reliable, high-performance experimental platforms.

Leads OQC’s quantum processor design and characterization strategy, setting multi-year research roadmaps and managing multidisciplinary teams across device theory, numerical modeling, hardware co-design, and experimental validation. The role oversees processor development from theory through prototyping, measurement, and validation; aligns architecture with control hardware, software, and product requirements; manages budgets and investments; develops technical leaders; and represents OQC to executives, partners, and the global quantum research community.

Leads OQC’s research software, logical compilation, and systems integration teams in Spain. Sets technical direction, shapes architectures, translates scientific challenges into software capabilities, and guides research tooling from experimentation to production. Builds a high-performing organization, develops technical leaders, partners with research and engineering groups, and integrates quantum computing systems with HPC environments, third-party platforms, and community tools.

Develop and maintain compiler and runtime software for quantum computers using Python, C++, LLVM, and related toolchains. Responsibilities include designing and implementing features, bringing algorithms into production, debugging complex issues, maintaining legacy code, testing, code review, and evaluating technical trade-offs. The role involves full software development lifecycle ownership, collaboration with research and engineering teams, technical communication, and mentoring.

Develop and validate quantum control methods to improve gate fidelity and stability. Design and optimise pulse shapes, characterise gate error mechanisms, build experimental pipelines and benchmarks, define calibration requirements, evaluate devices, and transfer techniques into production software and operational workflows.

As a Senior FPGA Engineer, you'll design and deliver precision control hardware for quantum computing, resolving complex technical challenges across FPGA architecture and real-time signal processing, while mentoring junior engineers.